Viet Tan says Vietnamese soldiers lured two of its members—an Australian man and a Norwegian woman—out of Cambodia and forced them into Vietnam, where they were detained.
The Vietnamese government denies underhanded tactics, asserting the men entered the country with forged documents, admitted to being members of a group it calls a terrorist organisation, and were arrested for that reason.
The opposition group calls the arrests a fabrication and claims the men were abducted in Cambodia, a move that violates Cambodian sovereignty and international law.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged consular support to the families, while human‑rights advocates condemn the act as an unacceptable form of transnational repression.
